ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some immediately useful implications for the United Nations in general, and the United Nations International Police in specific. It provides a phenomenological description of complex acculturation, much more research is needed. Much of the conventional research into expatriate acculturation involves a search for applications to provide more accurate vetting and selection of prospective expatriate workers. Pre-deployment and induction training applications could facilitate the complex acculturation of United Nations Police (UNPOL) officers in the hyper-diverse environment of an UNPOL mission. The construct of complex acculturation, as articulated here in the context of United Nations International Policing, would be very closely applicable to other international organizations. Diversity management in a domestic setting is considerably different from diversity management in an international setting. The process of complex acculturation seems in many ways to resemble a self-driven refinement of the participant's cultural intelligence.
